Introduction Many of the items you will find at HCLE are copyrighted, that is, there are restrictions on how they can be used. In the US we have a series of Federal laws that permit copyright holders to sue those who infringe on these restrictions. Many authors and creators of intellectual property prefer looser regulations concerning the use of their material so we also have Creative Commons Copyrights, GNU licensing, Copyleft and several others. If this is unfamiliar territory for you, you may find this 6-minute video provides an orientation to some copyright issues. The sections are:
What You Can and Cannot Do with HCLE Materials Understanding Creative Commons Copyrights
For starters, check out the Creative Commons web site...
"Peoples Computer Company", an example of public domain intention
What You Can and Cannot Do with HCLE Materials Well, it depends on the copyright status...
Case Studies
Tracing the Copyright of the "West Coast Computer Faire Conference Proceedings".
Here's what happened when Liza Loop tried to find out who owns the rights to
The First West Coast computer Faire: Conference Proceedings, Jim C. Warren, Jr., Editor
...(c) 76-11-18 by Computer Faire
First I sent a Facebook message to my "friend" Jim Warren.
Hi Jim. My project, The History of Computing in Learning and Education, would like to republish Conference Proceedings from the West Coast Computer Faires. I have copies of some of then that we can scan. They are copyrighted to "Computer Faire". Did this copyright get sold when you sold the Computer Faire to Prentice-Hall? Do you know who owns it now? Thanks for any help you can give me
Then I looked up the West Coast Computer Faire on Wikipedia
Nothing mentioned regarding the Proceedings. However, it did say: "In 1983, Warren sold the rights to the Faire for US$3 million to Prentice Hall, who later sold it to Sheldon Adelson, the owner of Interface Group and COMDEX". So did the copyright go with the Faire or stay with Prentice-Hall?
Wikipedia says this about Adelson's interest in Comdex: "In the late 1970s, Adelson and his partners developed the computer trade show COMDEX, for the computer industry; the first show was in 1979. It was the premier computer trade show through much of the 1980s and 1990s.[5[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson#cite_note-NYT-17Jan08-5|]]]
In 1995, Adelson and his partners sold the Interface Group Show Division, including the COMDEX shows, to SoftBank Corporation of Japan for $862 million; Adelson's share was over $500 million."
Next I tried Prentice-Hall on Wikipedia. It's now Pearson so I'm checking with their copyright department.
Stay tuned. Just in case, I tried out the Internet Archive And here's **"West Coast Computer Faire Conference Proceedings"** the very book I'm looking for! This gets the text to you but it doesn't resolve the copyright question,it just moves it to the Internet Archive and out of HCLE's purview.
On this page we will mention all kinds of information and problems related to copyright of information presented by HCLE.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Many of the items you will find at HCLE are copyrighted, that is, there are restrictions on how they can be used. In the US we have a series of Federal laws that permit copyright holders to sue those who infringe on these restrictions. Many authors and creators of intellectual property prefer looser regulations concerning the use of their material so we also have Creative Commons Copyrights, GNU licensing, Copyleft and several others.
If this is unfamiliar territory for you, you may find this 6-minute video provides an orientation to some copyright issues.
The sections are:
What You Can and Cannot Do with HCLE Materials
Understanding Creative Commons Copyrights
What You Can and Cannot Do with HCLE Materials Well, it depends on the copyright status...
Case Studies
Tracing the Copyright of the "West Coast Computer Faire Conference Proceedings".Here's what happened when Liza Loop tried to find out who owns the rights to
The First West Coast computer Faire: Conference Proceedings, Jim C. Warren, Jr., Editor
...(c) 76-11-18 by Computer Faire
First I sent a Facebook message to my "friend" Jim Warren.
Then I looked up the West Coast Computer Faire on Wikipedia
- Nothing mentioned regarding the Proceedings. However, it did say: "In 1983, Warren sold the rights to the Faire for US$3 million to Prentice Hall, who later sold it to Sheldon Adelson, the owner of Interface Group and COMDEX". So did the copyright go with the Faire or stay with Prentice-Hall?
- Wikipedia says this about Adelson's interest in Comdex: "In the late 1970s, Adelson and his partners developed the computer trade show COMDEX, for the computer industry; the first show was in 1979. It was the premier computer trade show through much of the 1980s and 1990s.[5[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson#cite_note-NYT-17Jan08-5|]]]
Next I tried Prentice-Hall on Wikipedia. It's now Pearson so I'm checking with their copyright department.In 1995, Adelson and his partners sold the Interface Group Show Division, including the COMDEX shows, to SoftBank Corporation of Japan for $862 million; Adelson's share was over $500 million."
Stay tuned.
Just in case, I tried out the Internet Archive
And here's **"West Coast Computer Faire Conference Proceedings"** the very book I'm looking for! This gets the text to you but it doesn't resolve the copyright question,it just moves it to the Internet Archive and out of HCLE's purview.
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